Description
NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.
Published: 2017-07-20
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-3119 NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.
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Nixos Project Nixos
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:12:40.130Z

Reserved: 2017-07-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11501

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-20T23:29:00.247

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-11501

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